- ' TUT: MOTtXIXfr OT?F!OniXTA V. SATTTPTlAV uriiTfir k mm NEW GRILL READ! Government Will Try to Indict Sugar Trust. MANY DOCUMENTS SOUGHT Inderal Authorities Seek .Informa tion as to Purchase of Controlling Stock in Forty-four Subsidi ary Concerns. NEW YORK. March 4. Not satisfied with the millions received in payment 'of duty evaded by short . weights involving the Indictment of Charles R." Heike, the company's secretary, and the conviction of minor employes, the United States Government Is still fighting hard to con vict the American Sugar . Kenning- Com jxiny for violation of the Shernian anti trust act. Such action was anticipated when the company was indicted for putting -the ' Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company oui of business,- but the settlement of that suit out of court and the ltnerfer ence of the statute of . limitations necessi tated another legal tack and the matter was laid before the Federal grand jury in January. Not until yesterday, however, did the scope of the inquiry become public, when the grand jury handed up a presentment for contempt against the company for the latetr's failure to produce certain books and papers in response to subpena. This presentment in itself is but a move of. the Government to ascertain its rights to the books In question; but inci dentally It disclosed the .nature of tne papers in demand and afforded a key to the scope of the Government .procedure. It has been alleged that the American Sugar Refining Company controls 90 per cent of the sugar business in this coun try, and a hint of Its intricate relations with various subsidiary corporations is given in the subpena. The subpena de mands the production-of "all agreements and other instruments made by or. to the American Sugar Refining Company or any officer thereof with any other per sons or corporations in and about the purchase by said company of stock in 44 companies." Among the papers demanded are the following: Agreement between- the company and the sugar syndicate of Mexico; contracts with the Sugar Factors Company, lim ited, of Hawaii; agreement In 1007 with John D. . Spreckels for the purchase of an Interest in the "Westerir- Beet Sugar , Company; contract with Hawaiian ' plant ers in 1S07, contracts! with - the " Chino Beet Sugar Company; contracts with the American Coffee Company; agency agreements with the Alameda Sugar Company; contract to purchase stock of the Great Western Sugar Company; com munications concerning the consolidation of Utah and Idaho Sugar Company and agreements with the following compa nies (between July, 1902, and January, 3906) : American Beet Sugar Company, Great Western Sugar Company of Colorado, Fort Colllno, Colo.; Sugar - Company, Utah Sugar Company, . Western Idaho Sugar Company, Continental Sugar Com pany, Snake River Valley Sugar Com pany, Michigan Sugar Company, Iowa Sugar Company, Bay City (Mich.) Sugar Company, Saginaw Sugar Company, Sag inaw "Valley Sugar Company, General Distributing Company of West Virginia, , .. Sehewaing Sugar Company, Great West ' rn Sugar Company of .New-. Jersey, Amalgamated Sugar Company, ( .Ogden . . Sugar Company, Oregon Sugar Company, Longmont Sugar Company, Billings , Sugar Company, Idaho Sugar Company. Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, Menominle Sugar Company, Spreckels Sugar Com pany, Northern Construction Company, San Pete-Sevier Sugar Company. Bay City Sugar Company. The order to show cause why the "trust" should not be adjudged in con tempt will be signed next week. ELKS CHOOSE OFFICERS Annual Election Is Characterized by Some Unusual Contests. Portland Lodge of Elks held its an nual Election of officers at the Elks Hall Thursday night; The election of sev eral officers was hotly contested, which was a- departure from , the usual pro gramme of moving- all officers up one "chair" as a matter of routine. When-the smoke-of the battle lifted the following candidates were declared elected: Exalted, ruler... W. R. Apperson; es teemed leading knight, K. K. Kubli; esteemed loyal knight, C. C. Bradley; esteemed lecturing knight, T. jj. jer kins; secretary,. C. M. Bills; treasurer, John B. Coffey; tyler, T. E. Dowlingr; trustee, John E. Kelly. Following the election, arrangements were completed for sending- a large delegation of the local herd of Elks to the christening of a ""baby" lodge of the order at Oregon Cify tonight. More than 1000 local Elks have sig nified their intention of participating; in the affair. Special electric trains hav, been chartered and will leave Water and East Morrison streets at 7 o'clock this evening. MAN FOUND DEAD IN BED r'' Thought to Be Fred Scliultz, Who Escaped From St. Vincent's. A man believed to be Fred Schultz, 66 years old, who escaped from St. Vin cent's Hospital early Monday morning, was found dead in bed in a lodging house at 224 First street at 5:30 P. M. Deputy Coroner Dunning was notified and removed the body to the morgue. At a late hour last night it had been unclaimed. It is considered that death resulted from natural causes. Schultz is said to have been an em ploye of the Vancouver Transportation Company on the steamer Undine. On February 18 he applied for ' admission at St. Vincent's .Hospital, saying he was suffering from heart trouble. Early Monday morning he escaped from the institution. Tuesday night he engaged lodgings at the ' establishment where his body was found yesterday. He is thought to have succumbed to an at tack of heart disease while he slept. ARMY ASKS FOR SUPPLIES Bids for Contracts Worth Millions Called for in Vancouver. VANCOUVER, Wash., March i (Spe cial.) The Government is beginning to advertise for bids to furnish supplies for the United States Army, for a year be ginning July 1, 1910. The supplies asked for include forage, dog food, bedding, coal, hard and soft, fuel, oil, fuel oil, gasoline, mineral oil. corn, corn meal, ba con, rice, oats, bran, coke and charcoal. 3.'ho supplies will aggregate, several -m44o--doHars. THrme-slrinV--to bid should send to G. S. Bingham. Deputy Quartermaster-General. United States Army, Headquarters Department of the Columbia, office of Chief Quartermaster, Vancouver Barracks, Wash., for blanks. The posts for which supplies will be bought include Forts Casey, Columbia, Flagler.x Lawton, Vancouver Barracks. Ward. Worden, Wright, Davis,, Canby, Walla Walla, George Wright. Seattle. Wash.; Stevens, offices at Portland. Or.; Egbert. Gibbon. Llscum, St. Michael, Wil liam H. Seward, Alaska, and Boise Bar racks. Idaho. The approximate amounts asked for are: Oats, 1,400,000 pounds; bran, 53,00 pounds; hay, 2.000.000 pounds; straw. 500.000 pounds; soft coal, 5,500.000 pounds; anthracite coal, 5.000,000 ' pounds; coal for steaming purposes, 12,000,000 pounds; oil. 160,000 gallons; corn, 60,000 pounds; bacon, 49,000 pounds, and rice, - 43,000 pounds. All of the supplies advertised for must be first-class in every respect' and prices in the bids 'will be stated per 100 pounds. The oats to be shipped to Alaska must be in double burlap sacks. ' POWER SITES SOUGHT APPLICATIONS INDICATE ACTIVE DEVELOPMENTS. State Well Protected by T.av Providing- Annual Horsepower Fee. No Objections Are Made. SALJCM, Or., March 4. (Special.) Between May 22, when the .1909 law requiring tho payment to the state of an annual fee of 25 cents per horse power" for water appropriated for man ufacturing purposes went into effect and. January 1, of this year, the follow ing have made application for 'water under this law and permits have been granted. In some of the -cases below the fees have already been paid to the state. Applicant. A. W. Mohr. The Dalles. A. "VV. Mohr. The Dalles W. O. GSalbreath, Prairie City Amazon Mining Company, 1'ortland... J. K. Stewart R. F. Sharp. R. J. Mc.Isaacs, Mtl'Hood" Kdwnrd C. Rea. Prairie "lty . Phil Beckley, Oakland, Or The filings that have been completed, and on which permits have been grant ed to appropriate water under the terms of Chapter 221 are but a small part of the total number of filings that have been made. About 15 ap plications for upward of 500 horsepower each, have been filed, which, for vari ous reasons have not yet been acted upon, by the Board of .Control.- In most, cases the data supplied by the applicant have not been complete enough to warrant action by the board. Some of the applications now pending propose to appropriate large quanti ties of water, and will, if granted, bring the state some revenue. These include, among others, an application by the Gibson Manufacturing Company for approximately 20,000 horsepower on the Clackamas river; one by Wesley B. Sherman for about 20,000 on the Rogue river, and an . application by W. K. Brown, of Hollister, Cal., for 20,454 horsepower on the Klamath river. Chapter 216, known as the Water Code, requires thaj certain fees shall be collected by the State Engineer to cover the cost of examining applica tions, copies of maps, charts, etc. These fees are payable but once, and are not to be confused with the annual fees based on the. amount of water to be appropriated. .In. the W. K. . Brown- ap plication, the state" engineer's fees alone will be J1090.75. while the fees re quired under Chapter 221 will be ap proximately $5113 per year. Before the passage of the water laws in 1909 there were many more appli cations for the appropriation of water for power purposes' than -at present, but, it is asserted, these applications, w-lth which an annual fee of only ?5 or $10 was required, did not represent development of the power. Various in terests found it profitable to tie up the water power of the state, it is said, since it could be done at a min imum expense. ' Under the new system, the compara tively heavy expense makes it prac tically certain that when an individual or corporation files on a certain amount of power it will speedily be put to some profitable use. State Engineer Lewis states that there has .been practically no protest against the fees by interests that have bona fide development project . in hand. LtCiES BECKER, OF ST. I.OUIS, tOCATED WITH BRIDE. Writes Relatives at Old Home That He Was Secretly Married In New York to St. Ixuis Girl. ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 4. (Special.) Luoien E. Becker, president of the Becker Bros.' Conservatory, former conductor of the Knights of Columbus Choral Club, and of the St. Louis- Orchestra, who dis appeared three years ago, has written from Portland, Or., to a friend in St. Louis saying he intends to return. He Is one of the most widely-known musi cians in the Middle West. He admits he is -married and gives1 the name of the girl, to whom he was secretly wedded in New York on his departure, as Miss Edith Small, of St. Louis County. Simultaneously with the news Camilla Becker, who, since the absence of his brother has been in charge of the Bt. Louis Conservatory, has received a let ter to the same effect, with the exception that the name of the bride was omitted. This is the finale of a romantic episode the mystery of which has baffled the musician's many friends.. He has traveled throughout Europe and America .sinca his disappearance. It is presumed that bashfulness at the thought of announcing himself a benedict after being an accred ited bachelor was the reason for his silence. "I have received no offer of a post in the Cathedral at St. Louis, and was un aware that my 6e-rvices are desired there," said Mr. Becker tonight, according to dispatches from Portland. "I am, of course, unable to say what my action will be in the event I receive an offer until the terms are known." he added. Thrift, Farmer's Capital. WESTON, Or.,' March 4. (Special.) Alex Johnson is preparing to spend $6000 for improvements this Spring at his place on Plna Creek below Weston. He will construct a large new house and barn, and has let a contract for the drilling of a well. Mr. Johnson's career provides a note worthy example of successful farming in the Weston country. He started 15 years ago with scarcely $1, going in debt for a quarter section of land. He now owns 00 acres of valuable wheat land, and farms other land under lease. He has more than 300 acres of Fall sown wheat, and reports a crop outlook of great promis ALLOS 'HAKES DEFENSE NEW YORK SENATOR. REFUTES EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM. Witness Says There Was No Need of Anyone Offering Bribes, as Ob jectionable Bill Was Dead. ALBANY, K. T., March 4. Yesterday was distinctly Senator Allds' day at the bribery investigation. The defendant oc cupied the witness-stand from the open ing of the session, and his direct exam ination was unfinished when adjournment was taken until today. Senator Bern Conger and his attorneys offered no interruption while the defend ant told a Ptory that contradicted at every point Conger's assertion that Allds solicited and received J1000 for blocking legislation hostile to the bridge, com panies. "That is absolutely false," declared thfl accused Senator, when Conger's testl mony was repeated to him. He asserted tna be had not met his- accuser's brother, Frank, the agent of the American Bridge Company, and that the first (ime he saw Hiram- G. Moe was when he appeared On tne etand at this trial. Allds tried to show that there was no necessity, for the bridge interest to eive him money in 1901, because the results they are alleged to have wanted already. iia oeen accomplished by orders from i nomas .Piatt, then United States Sena tor. Allds sought to show that the bridge companies nad reasons to know this. Such proof was in the form" of cor respondence between Allds and "Piatt who in 1901, was the Republican leader m mis nate, and between Piatt and w. A. Smyth, of Oswego. Smyth appealed io i lan 10 suppress the bridge bill on wnicn conger says Allds bases his de mand for- corruption monev and Tlatt asked Allds to see that the bill was Killed. Allds wrote to Piatt declaring that the wa saieiy stuck In the committee on Proposed Permit Fees Keea H. P. Limit.' 1!0!. l'.HO. TO 70 i 7.10 $ 17.50 200 200 20.25 60.00 S .(10 2.00 5. SO 21.50 Stu 30 " 1.50 T.r0 11 11 .55 2.75 2-'0 222 10.25 55.50 1000 1136 33.45 284.00 rules of which he was a member, and would never come out. It developed to day that Senator Piatt had sent orders to Speaker Nixon in this connection ICHE HITS CAMP ALIi BUT THE SUPERINTENDENT OBEY ALARM AND ESCAPE. Skookum Mining Company's Plant, Near Roslyn," Suffers Nearly v $25,000 Damages. ROSLYN, Wash., March 4. Word has just reached here that the Skookum Mining- Company's camp, 20 miles north of here- and four mlleo frnm Stewart, was wiped out by an avalanche mat swept down the mountain at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning. Of the 18 men in the camp all es caped but Superintendent E. L. Sim mons. , Superintendent Simmons was sleeping in the office building, which was carried away by the slide. His body was found, horribly mangled, at the bottom of the canyon, 300 feet below the camp. Twelve of the 16 buildings forming the camp were destroyed by the avalanche. The men who escaped were sleeping in a building that was destroyed, but were aroused in time to escape by the cook who heard the roar of the slide as it came down the mountain. The crusher and concentrating plant was not de stroyed. The main offices of the company are in Philadelphia. -,The damage to the prop erty will not exceed $25,000. GIRLS TAUGHT TO STEAL Juvenile Prisoners Tell of Female Fagin In Harlem Flat. NEW YOK, March 4. When Mary Pokorney and Mary Shadauer, both 13 years old, were arrested last night, both carried big muffs with split linings 'and double skirts with false pockets, in which were found jewelry, laces, silks and var ious trinkets valued at $60. Mary Pokorney told the police of meet ing a woman who invited her to her flat in Harlem. There, says Mary, the wo man set out goods on a table in imitation of a counter of -a department store, and gave regular instructions to a class in the art of stealing without attracting the attention of the saleswomen. A man she met at the flat induced her to run away with him, she said, and for three weeks they have been living in fur nished rooms, she stealing to support him. He was arrested last night. RAILROADS REPORT COST Expense of Reproduction Greater Than Present Value. SALEM, Or., March 4. (Special.) The State Railroad Commission is re ceiving complete and satisfactory re ports covering tne cost of reproduction of the various railroads of the state. At a hearing in the office of the com mission today the reports of the Salem I'alls City & Western Railway and of the Oregon & Southeastern were sub mitted. The report of the Salem, Falls City & Western is that it would cost to re produce the 27 miles -of the company's main line $594J90.33. The present value of the road is estimated at $534,410.94. The Oregon & Southeastern, 20 miles long, would cost to reproduce $432, 856.86 and the present value is given as $403,114.69. AMENDMENT TO BE ASKED Spokane Delegation .Wants High Charges for Short Haul Stopped. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, March 4. A delegation of business men from Spokane is expected here next week to appear before the interstate commerce commission of the Senate and House to urge an amendment to the long and short haul clause in the existing in terstate, commerce law. They will ask that the restriction be removed, so that hereafter no railroad may charge more for a short haul than for a long haul, except in instances where specifically so authorized by the Inter state Commerce Commission. President A. W. Doland, of the Mer chants' Association, and Seift-etary L. (J. Monroe, of the Chamber of Commerce are heading the delegation. 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